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Brighter Brain


Country United States
State Georgia
City Atlanta
Phone 404-458-9473
Website http://brighterbrain.com

Brighter Brain Reviews

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  • Sep 21, 2017

From the beginning, i was skeptical of brighter brain's offer. It seemed too good to be true. On the second day of training, my concerns were confirmed. Brighter brain gives you the impression you're going to receive top-notch training that will ready its consultants for any position; including developer/architect roles. Nothing is further from the truth.

Once you sign the contract, you begin “training” and quickly realize you’re using equipment that oftimes cannot handle building out the environment. You will waste days and back-to-back sleepless nights trying to complete your assignment on account of how slow your environment creeps. Simple installs took 48+ hours as many would be up for days going through updates and installs on laptops that consistently pegged the cpu/hdd/memory @100% usage. Many times, a simple install would error out and you have to start from the beginning several times. This left absolutely no time to break your environment, test and resolve issues in class with the trainer. The instructor would review your performance, which didn't tell the true story of your abilities.

The trainer was dry, had no personality, did not energize the class to perform greatly, and was largely unavailable for questions or helping to understand the material. Oftimes, you were given links to web articles to read. There was no formal classroom books or uniform materials. Just a bunch of pdfs and powerpoints loosely handed out.

Because of this, 75% of the class quit towards the end of the training period due to the bait and switch lies of brighter brain.

Housing was filthy – no trash pickup in classroom, facilities always disgusting, no bi weekly housekeeper at the place you’re staying as you're lied and told.

Corporate personnel is extremely secretive; atmosphere bizarre. They keep you in the dark because they're working behind the scenes deceiving, impersonating and lying to potential vendors selling under-trained consultants as seasoned "architects" with a minimum of 10 years’ experience. 90% of the resume marketed is untrue. They will take your real resume and mix it into the fabricated resume to give it "some" authenticity. But, largely, you did not go to, work where or do the majority of what's listed.

If you're one of the lucky to land a project, you end up being educated while there instead of directing the project as intended. Soon, it becomes clear you’re not an “expert” to everyone. Quite embarrassing.

Brighter brain tells you they provide a team of consultants for 24 hour support while on project. Support lacks experience, was unavailable during the evening hours, unable to positively assist in majority scenarios and easily aggravated. Many times, you will end up resolving issues by process of elimination. Support is you trying their suggestions that 9 times out of 10 will not resolve the issue. You will be left out to dry on many aspects.

The others on project will become visibly and verbally frustrated with your lack of experience and know-how. You will experience feelings of embarrassment, ineptitude and guilt as you recount in your mind the big lie you’re withholding. I heard numerous stories of consultants walking off and disappearing because they couldn't handle an environment with such abysmal support.

You will be assigned a consultant development manager Cdm) whose job is to try and maintain the overall illusion of support for the “consultant”.

You cannot tell your cdm anything or you’ll just receive the runaround and the support you actually require will not be forthcoming. Their main directive is to make sure you as an "expert consultant" do not implode while on project.

Brighter brain will make promises and not keep them. One example is, helping to train for microsoft certifications. They will tell you, “yes”, then not provide materials, time, training, etc.

While on project, you are told to update sharepoint every day with information regarding work to be done in the current environment. This is supposed to give support insight into what you're dealing with. No one reads your entries.

Essentially, everyone at brighter brain is concerned with ensuring the consultant gets on project in order to work off the almost $15k you're under contract for. Brighter brain will bill vendors for $70 - 100+ dollars an hour. The consultant will receive only a fraction of that wage. Each time you get a project, you will have to sign an additional contract specifically for that project to ensure you do not quit. Otherwise, they will deem it a breach of contract and come after you in court for the $15k. Once they feel you effectively worked off the $15k, interaction with you will get more and scarcer until your contract runs out.

If by chance the client would like to hire you directly, you will not be able to take the position. Brighter brain’s contract stipulates a consultant cannot take a position permanently for up to a year “after” your last day with the client. Which means, you cannot quit and be hired directly by the company for up to a year’s time. This will undoubtedly cause you to be passed up for what could otherwise be a great opportunity for you. Brighter brain is only looking out for their own interests and not the consultant.

In conclusion, brighter brain deals in deception from you as a consultant to the vendors and while on project. It's all a huge lie you cannot reveal or be penalized. How this is legal in the united states could be due to legal loopholes and exploitation of the h1-b visa. The reason is, many of the people coming through this deception are foreigners.

All-in-all, i gained absolutely no experience while in this bizarre ordeal for the last 2 years. And i do not recommend anyone get caught up in brighter brain's web of lies and deceit.

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  • Mar 15, 2017

I joined BrighterBrain -AKA Mobile Apps Company AKA Mobile Apps Enterprises, LLC AKA Techfield AKA ExchangeHub AKA Unbounded Solutions- a year ago thinking that I finally found my dream job, the reality was nothing like that.

BrighterBrain made us believe that they had Fortune 500 clients lined up waiting for us to complete our training, when the reality was we were being trained on how to lie and pass interviews, and there are no clients lined up. Instead someone from BrighterBrain impersonates us, and spams a fake resume in our name and waits for whatever company bites. By sheer accident, I managed to get access to the marketing e-mail and see what was really going on. You are impersonated, and a fake resume is sent, and the impersonator negotiates an hourly salary of about $85 to $100, of which you'd only get about $30. The companies that we are then sent off to, have no idea that we work for BrighterBrain, and it is Brighter Brain's policy that we never disclose that fact. We have to memorize a fake resume.

Why didn't you leave you might ask. Before you get to understand the reality of how everything works, before the resume rollout -what they call giving you a fake resume to memorize-, you are sold a lie and made to sign an agreement penalizing you up to $15,000 for the training they are going to give you. When you believe that they have clients lined up, and you believe that the training will be worth it, you sign the agreement

Luckily I was let go, it wasn't my intention and the decision from BrighterBrain came to me as a surprise, I guess it was for the best. Though I question the legality of letting me go due to a personal health condition. I went ahead and signed it anyway.

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  • Dec 24, 2015

Brighter brain is not a new company, but, rather, an older company with a bad reputation and a new name. The former company name is unbounded solutions. They recently renamed and rebranded themselves. They divided the company up into different sectors. Brighter brain consists of techfield llc, mobile apps company and the sales experts.

The material presented herein is stated objectively and without bias, and includes some first-hand accounts of what happens there. I hold no bad intention to anyone, not even those who deceived me. My only goal is to set the record straight and protect the integrity of one of the world's most rapidly growing and corporate critical industries. To continue...

Here's how the company works:

1) brighter brain recruits persons to work for their company as consultants in the following fields: android, iphone, sharepoint and exchange. The persons may or may not have previous experience in one of those four fields. Nevertheless, brighter brain sends them through a training program, which lasts about 3-4 months. After which time, the brighter brain consultant has a working knowledge of the software and the role they will be attempting to do, as an application developer, for example. Everything at this point is not a rip off. What is fraudulent is what happens next.

2) after the consultant has gone through the brief period of training, their resume gets modified, sometimes extremely fabricated. Keep in mind – falsifying a resume is not always illegal, but it can get the person fired.) at this point, the consultant doesn't have actual work experience in the field. So, brighter brain makes fictitious work histories at usually big name companies and sometimes smaller name companies. The resulting resume likely would state something to the following, for someone who has never worked in the field or has been working less than 2 years:

3-9 years of work experience as a developer or senior developer

With very detailed descriptions of each fake job the consultant didn't work

Possibilty of very detailed job description for legitimate experiences - likely exagerrated

2-4 published applications in the app store

3) then, the consultant's resume is marketed by a sales associate for the company, who acts like the actual consultant and represents the consultant's resume to recruiters and vendors. In other words, the sales associate acts as an imposter. He then aims to get the actual consultant interviews with clients. More details below.

Note: all of the brighter brain consultants have “great references” from their “previous employer”. How? Because brighter brain creates fake line 2 phone numbers according to the zip code of the employer and someone from brighter brain acts as their former boss over the phone. They also do fake reference checks via email, which are always personal email addresses – like gmail or yahoo – not corporate ones, like “@visa.com”. This faking of references happened several times during my tenure, at which point the sales manager of the sales expert deceived a vendor Recruiter) into thinking he was the former boss of consultant. The assistant sales manager also did the same form of fraud. Sometimes the actual sales associates were asked to do the reference faking as well. This was not a 1 time thing. This happened every time a reference was requested. They create fake phone number, fake email address and then act as the former boss, to ensure their consultant gets checked off with good references.

As a real example, one of the consultants brighter brain was marketing actually graduated in 2015 This year), but had on his resume 3+ years of work history as an iphone developer. He never worked in the field before but recently went through their 3-4 month training program in iphone application development. He was being marketed by a sales associate. This sales associate – as all sales associates – would act as the actual consultant, in essence as an impostor, in an attempt to get the real consultant an interview with the client. Here's an example:

-consultant, let's call him an arbitray set of initials "dm", has finished the training program at brighter brain.

-brighter brain has revamped his resume with fictitious work histories.

-sales associate for brighter brain begins marketing dm as himself through internet job boards and by calling recruiters, vendors.

-sales associate “sells” dm as an excellent iphone application developer, negotiates a very high pay rate – between $80-$90/hr – and sales associate pushes for an interview for the real consultant, dm.

-after a phone/skype interview request is made for the consultant dm, brighter brain gets their “technical team” to sit it on the interview with the consultant, to help him answer the questions. After the interview is done, a report is sent to the sales associate about the actual interview, so he can continue deceiving the vendor/recruiter into thinking he's consultant dm.

-once a client is ready to offer the consultant a job, a contract is agreed upon between the vendor and brighter brain, wherein brighter brain makes sure they are not at fault if their consultant fails on project.

-sometimes the consultant fails project and sometimes he succeeds.

-supposedly, all consultants have a support team while in project, like they do during their interviews. Of course this must be kepts secret while on project and also it must be kept secret during the hiring process. Reports can be read online to attest to that. From my experience, brighter brain goes to great lengths, even threats, hacking and bribes, to try to keep their secret form of fraud.)

As a sales assocciate, i was told that 95% of brighter brain consultants succeeded in their projects. The reality was that 0% of the consultants i was marketing passed their last proejct; 50% of them were terminated from their last project and 50% of them had never worked in the field. Keep in mind, all of them had stellar resumes and i was selling them at the highest rates in the industry. I previously believed the lies but it took some work to uncover the reality.)

To summarize, brighter brain tries to place underqualified it consultants on consulting projects at top tier rates - $65-$100/hr on corp-to-corp – by deceiving the vendor and clients. Why does brighter brain do this? Because they pay their consultants fractions of what they are earning. It's a very profitable business, but, quite terribly, a business built on deception and lies.

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  • Sep 20, 2017

Brighter Brain's Deception

From the beginning, I was skeptical of Brighter Brain's offer. It seemed too good to be true. On the second day of training, my concerns were confirmed. Brighter Brain gives you the impression you're going to receive top-notch training that will ready its consultants for any position; including developer/architect roles. Nothing is further from the truth.

Once you sign the contract, you begin “training” and quickly realize you’re using equipment that oftimes cannot handle building out the environment. You will waste DAYS and back-to-back sleepless nights trying to complete your assignment on account of how slow your environment creeps. Simple installs took 48+ hours as many would be up for days going through updates and installs on laptops that consistently pegged the CPU/HDD/Memory @100% usage. Many times, a simple install would error out and you have to start from the beginning several times. This left absolutely no time to break your environment, test and resolve issues in class with the trainer. The instructor would review your performance, which didn't tell the true story of your abilities.

The trainer was dry, had no personality, did not energize the class to perform greatly, and was largely unavailable for questions or helping to understand the material. Oftimes, you were given links to web articles to read. There was no formal classroom books or uniform materials. Just a bunch of PDFs and PowerPoints loosely handed out.

Because of this, 75% of the class quit towards the end of the training period due to the bait and switch lies of Brighter Brain.

Housing was filthy – no trash pickup in classroom, facilities always disgusting, no bi weekly housekeeper at the place you’re staying as you're lied and told.

Corporate personnel is extremely secretive; atmosphere bizarre. They keep you in the dark because they're working behind the scenes deceiving, impersonating and lying to potential vendors selling under-trained consultants as seasoned "Architects" with a minimum of 10 years’ experience. 90% of the resume marketed is untrue. They will take your real resume and mix it into the fabricated resume to give it "some" authenticity. But, largely, you did not go to, work where or do the majority of what's listed.

If you're one of the lucky to land a project, you end up being educated while there instead of directing the project as intended. Soon, it becomes clear you’re not an “expert” to everyone. Quite embarrassing.

Brighter Brain tells you they provide a team of consultants for 24 hour support while on project. Support lacks experience, was unavailable during the evening hours, unable to positively assist in majority scenarios and easily aggravated. Many times, you will end up resolving issues by process of elimination. Support is you trying their suggestions that 9 times out of 10 will not resolve the issue. You will be left out to dry on many aspects.

The others on project will become visibly and verbally frustrated with your lack of experience and know-how. You will experience feelings of embarrassment, ineptitude and guilt as you recount in your mind the big lie you’re withholding. I heard numerous stories of consultants walking off and disappearing because they couldn't handle an environment with such abysmal support.

You will be assigned a Consultant Development Manager (CDM) whose job is to try and maintain the overall ILLUSION of support for the “consultant”.

You cannot tell your CDM anything or you’ll just receive the runaround and the support you actually require will not be forthcoming. Their main directive is to make sure you as an "expert consultant" do not implode while on project.

Brighter Brain will make promises and not keep them. One example is, helping to train for Microsoft Certifications. They will tell you, “yes”, then not provide materials, time, training, etc.

While on project, you are told to update SharePoint every day with information regarding work to be done in the current environment. This is supposed to give support insight into what you're dealing with. No one reads your entries.

Essentially, everyone at Brighter Brain is concerned with ensuring the consultant gets on project in order to work off the almost $15K you're under contract for. Brighter Brain will bill vendors for $70 - 100+ dollars an hour. The consultant will receive only a fraction of that wage. Each time you get a project, you will have to sign an additional contract specifically for that project to ensure you do not quit. Otherwise, they will deem it a breach of contract and come after you in court for the $15K. Once they feel you effectively worked off the $15K, interaction with you will get more and scarcer until your contract runs out.

In conclusion, Brighter Brain deals in deception from you as a consultant to the vendors and while on project. It's all a huge lie you cannot reveal or be penalized. How this is legal in the United States could be due to legal loopholes and exploitation of the H1-B visa. The reason is, many of the people coming through this deception are foreigners.

All-in-all, I gained absolutely no experience while in this bizarre ordeal for the last 2 years. And I do not recommend anyone get caught up in Brighter Brain's web of lies and deceit.

Mark as Useful [3 votes]
  • Jan 1, 2018

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I joined BrighterBrain -AKA Mobile Apps Company AKA Mobile Apps Enterprises, LLC AKA Techfield AKA ExchangeHub AKA Unbounded Solutions- a year ago thinking that I finally found my dream job, the reality was nothing like that.

BrighterBrain made us believe that they had Fortune 500 clients lined up waiting for us to complete our training, when the reality was we were being trained on how to lie and pass interviews, and there are no clients lined up. Instead someone from BrighterBrain impersonates us, and spams a fake resume in our name and waits for whatever company bites. By sheer accident, I managed to get access to the marketing e-mail and see what was really going on. You are impersonated, and a fake resume is sent, and the impersonator negotiates an hourly salary of about $85 to $100, of which you'd only get about $30. The companies that we are then sent off to, have no idea that we work for BrighterBrain, and it is Brighter Brain's policy that we never disclose that fact. We have to memorize a fake resume.

Why didn't you leave you might ask. Before you get to understand the reality of how everything works, before the resume rollout -what they call giving you a fake resume to memorize-, you are sold a lie and made to sign an agreement penalizing you up to $15,000 for the training they are going to give you. When you believe that they have clients lined up, and you believe that the training will be worth it, you sign the agreement

Luckily I was let go, it wasn't my intention and the decision from BrighterBrain came to me as a surprise, I guess it was for the best. Though I question the legality of letting me go due to a personal health condition. I went ahead and signed it anyway.

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